Updated March 2018
A couple of summers ago I thought it would be a very interesting idea to see if my skin could pigment again in the places that my vitiligo had attacked. The results were very exciting! Okay, my skin didn’t totally re-pigment but I was in ecstatic to find out that the ability for my skin to treatment again was not gone.
Each day I would sit outside for about 30 minutes, some days more, some days less. Little by little I would see tiny freckles begin to emerge in the white patches of my skin on my hands. Take a look at the pictures below and you will see the slow re-pigmentation in in the white patches.
The color didn’t last long. At the end of the summer and into the fall months the newly re-pigmented freckles slowly faded back to my white vitiligo patches. I wasn’t discouraged. The fact that my white patches could get little freckles again was inspiring.
You can try yourself. Sit outside for just a little while each day while you read a book or play on your phone, and you too may develop a little freckling.
originally published July 22, 2007
How are you progressing now? Any better?